United States National Spelling Bee
The United States National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a non-profit basis by the 1926
- foulard, in 1931
- canonical, in 1939
- sacrilegious, in 1942
- semaphore, in 1946
- insouciant, in 1951
- crustaceology, in 1955
- equipage, in 1963
- chihuahua, in 1967
- maculature, in 1979
- elucubrate, in 1980
- sarcophagus, in 1981
- psoriasis, in 1982
- Purim, in 1983
- luge, in 1984
- milieu, in 1985
- odontalgia, in 1986
- staphylococci, in 1987
- elegiacal, in 1988
- spoliator, in 1989
- fibranne, in 1990
- antipyretic, in 1991
- lyceum, in 1992
- kamikaze, in 1993
- antediluvian, in 1994
- xanthosis, in 1995
- vivisepulture, in 1996
- euonym, in 1997
- chiaroscurist, in 1998
- logorrhea, in 1999
- demarche, in 2000
- succedaneum, in 2001
- prospicience, in 2002
- pococurante, in 2003
- autochthonous, in 2004
